There has been some talk in the Blogosphere of IATEFL 2010 being marked by a huge presence of pro-technology participation, with many sessions on Twitter, IWBs and Web 2.0. Lindsey Clandfield just came up with this brilliant mashup of the film Avatar and the curious counterpoint of pro-tech and Teaching Unplugged at the conference: (source: […]
Month: April 2010
Teacher Training Unplugged Hits Harrogate
Izzy and I have just returned from the IATEFL conference in Harrogate, UK – a 4-day whirlwind of ideas and experiences. One reason for going was to hold a workshop on our recent attempts to approach CELTA teacher Training in a Dogme-like fashion, and to help beginning teachers learn to teach this way from scratch. […]
How Dogme Are We? – Part 2
You can be Dogme in many different ways, depending on which aspect of its philosophy you value. For example, the teacher who values a shared teaching and learning space uncluttered with unneeded materials will try to reduce to the required minimum what resources from outside the classroom they import into it. The teacher who values […]